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In the context of Government policy and activities, if any new agencies are to be created and established, could those eight local authority areas—obviously, I would make a pitch for mine—be considered first in line for siting them?
I cannot really comment on that. At the level that the bill is pitched, that is probably adequate. I cannot immediately think of anything that is missing, and it follows the thinking through from the creation of the Scottish heat map and everything else that we are looking at in having regard to the amount of thermal energy required but also ensuring that t...
At the time of the Local Government and Communities Committee’s inquiry in 2017, Glasgow Council and Aberdeen City Council made a pitch for that kind of devolution of power to come with the deals.
We have or have had infrastructure such as miners welfare clubs, working men’s institutes, libraries, football pitches, dog tracks, pigeon doocots, women’s guilds, the co-operative, traditional housing, miners rows and the like.
The elasticity of price is absolutely key, and we need to stress test exactly what we are going to pitch the rate at. Edinburgh’s proposal is for a fairly low rate.
You have to trade off a range of uses for the areas in between the sea side and where urban settlements start pitching up. What we have seen, partly in and around Glasgow, is that there are ways of combining urban settlements and managing the shoreline.
We have a huge opportunity to invest in 5G, 4G and 3G technology, which would invest in our industry and businesses and spread the benefits through communities at the same time.